Pretrial detention results in negative consequences that are unrelated to a person's guilt or innocence.

This May 2016 article by Megan Stevenson is the first to use a quasi-experimental research design to show that the money bail actually causes guilty pleas, higher court costs, and longer sentences. Specifically, pretrial detention

Recognizing the ways that cash bail skews criminal justice outcomes and the attendant consequences that radiate from the individual to the community, activists in jurisdictions most impacted by mass incarceration have begun creating community bail funds.